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FIRST ON FOX — A number one conservative group that has lengthy been a significant participant in Republican Celebration main battles is placing its weight behind GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn as she runs for Tennessee governor.
The Membership for Development PAC is endorsing Blackburn, who’s dealing with off towards Rep. John Rose within the 2026 Republican gubernatorial main in reliably purple Tennessee. The winner of subsequent yr’s basic election will succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Invoice Lee.
“Senator Marsha Blackburn is a confirmed chief who has devoted her profession to public service, preventing every single day to guard the person freedoms and monetary well-being of Tennesseans throughout the state,” Membership for Development PAC President David McIntosh stated in a press release that was shared first with Fox Information Digital.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn, seen talking final summer season on the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday landed the backing of the influential conservative group Membership for Development. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
McIntosh famous that “within the U.S. Senate, Blackburn championed tax cuts, eradicated burdensome rules, and is an outspoken supporter of college freedom.”
The Membership for Development highlighted that Blackburn, who’s a prime Senate ally of President Donald Trump, is a seven-time winner of the group’s Defender of Financial Freedom Award.
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The group touts that it is the nation’s largest conservative tremendous PAC and that within the 2024 cycle, candidates endorsed by the Membership for Development received 79% of their elections.
Blackburn in 2018 turned the primary lady elected to the Senate from Tennessee. Final November, she received re-election by 29 factors in a state that moved more and more to the fitting.
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If Blackburn wins subsequent yr’s gubernatorial election, she would make historical past once more, because the state’s first feminine governor.
